Axle cooler and lubricator



[No Model.)

R. B. COG'AN, W. M. PIERCE 85 J. G. 1:". JONES. AXLE COOLER AND 'LUBRIQ-ATOR.

No. 474,294. PatentedjMay 3, 18 92.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIoE.

ROBERT B.'OOGAN, WILLIAM M. PIERCE, AND JOHN C. F. JONES, OF BRAD- DOOK, PENNSYLVANIA.

AXLE COOLER AND LUBRICATOR.

$PECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 474,294, dated May 3, 1892..

Application filed May 28, 1891. Serial No. 393,909. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern; c c, and feeding the lubricant to said boxes.

Be it known that we, ROBERT B. COGAN, Asingle reservoir can be put in the platform 5 WILLIAM M. PIERCE, and JOHN C. F. J ONEs, on each end of a car, as shown in dotted lines, citizens of the United States, residing at Brad- Fig. 2, of the accompanying drawings, and 5 dock,in the county of Allegheny and State of said flexible tubes can lead to opposite sides Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and of a truck and perform the same functions useful Improvementsin Lubricating and Coolas those previously referred to. ing Devices for Railway-Cars, &c.; and we do It frequently happens, but more especially hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, with baggage-cars, that the internal load of [o and exact description of the invention, such said cars are unequally distributed, and the as will enable others skilled in the art to which friction of the bearings becomes so' great it pertains to make and use the same, referthat the lubricant is forced out, and conseence beinghad to the accompanyingdrawings, quen tly the car journal becomes hot and which form a part of this specification. finally burns the waste-packing and lubricant.

I5 This invention has relation to that class of When this occurs, it is not necessary to run a lubricating and cooling devices for railway train to the nearest water-station to cool said cars in which reservoirs for lubricants or 0001- box; butthe reservoirs A A, 850., can be filled 7o ing mediums are carried by the train and conwith water while the cars are running or with nected with the journals; and it has for its other cooling material or substances, thus savzo object to provide an entirely practical and efing valuable time and, perhaps, preventingthe fective device of the character stated which car catching on fire, which has frequently hapshall possess all the advantages of those herepened. tofore constructed and other advantages not We do not claim, broadly, a lubricating or found therein and at the same time be more cooling device for railway-cars in which is em- 2 5 simple in its construction than those heretoployed reservoirs connected with the axlefore provided. journals, since We are aware that such cou- To these ends the invention consists in cerstruction is not broadly new. tain peculiarities in the construction, arrange- Having described our invention, that which ment, and combination of the several parts, we desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 0 substantially as hereinafter described, and The coinbinatioinwitharailway-car, of the particularly pointed out in the subjoined herein-described lubricator and cooling declaim. vice for the journals thereof, comprising one In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side or more reservoirs secured to each platform elevation of a railway-car with our improved of the car and each having a'cover flush with 5 lubricator and cooling device attached therethe top of said platform when closed, indeto. Fig. 2 represents a plan in detail with a pendent lubricating-pipes 0, each of which portion of the car broken away, exhibiting extends along the length of one of the trucks the reservoirs on opposite sides of the platof the car, a flexible tube B, connecting each form in full lines,and alsoareservoir centrally of said pipes with a reservoir and entering 40 located upon said platform in dotted lines. the latter at the. bottom thereof, and a series Ourimprovedlubricating and coolingappaof flexible tubes or pipes 0, connecting the ratus consists of reservoirs or feeders A A A same with the journal-boxes of the trucks, A, located, preferably, adjacent to the steps on substantially as shown and described. each car-platform. These reservoirs are pro- In testimony that-we claim the foregoing 5 vided with lids or covers a a, &c., and are flush we hereunto affix our signatures this 13th day with the car-platforms when closed, offering of May, A. D. 1891. no obstruction to passengers when crossing the same. Extending from the under side or bottom of said reservoirs are flexible 0011- JOHN C F JONES 50 necting tubes or hose ]3 B B, which are secured to independent lubricating pipes or In presence oftubes 0 C O and which lead directly to the CHARLES LARGE, journal-boxes D D D by means of small tubes M. E. HARRISON. 

